William Perlman/The Star-LedgerJacob Lacey said this play helped him learn to read his keys better for the rest of last year's AFC Championship game.

INDIANAPOLIS ― Jacob Lacey remembers the Mark Sanchez pump-fake, then all the tough-to-swallow moments that followed.

With 14:56 left to play in the first half of the AFC Championship game last year, the Colts up 3-0, the ball sailed over Lacey's head and into the outstretched arms of Braylon Edwards, who rumbled the rest of the way untouched for an 80-yard touchdown.

The score was the first of three drives that would yield points for the Jets in the next 12 minutes. They would go into the half with a 17-13 lead over the Colts.

"I definitely learned from it," Lacey, preparing to face Sanchez for the first time since, said.

He said the play had its benefits. For one, it helped him read his keys better for the rest of the game. The emphatic pump-fake that forced him to bite on the intermediate route was a mistake the then-rookie said he wouldn't make again as he tried to fight it off the rest of the night.

Amid a season where he fought his way into the starting lineup after going undrafted the previous April, it served as another crucial lesson along the way.

"You know that type of stuff happens," he said. "But the main focus I had was to bounce back, just erase that one."

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Lacey was pulled over on Monday in what he referred to on his Twitter account as a case of mistaken identity.

He said roughly eight police cars swarmed his vehicle. He was handcuffed while police searched all around the car. They told him it "fit the description," of a vehicle they were looking for.

When asked about it today, he said the following:

"Thought it was a routine stop. Asked him what I did, he told me to get out of the car, he cuffed me, they walked around the car and they left."